MLS won’t be coming to Minnesota anytime soon, but league officials have acknowledged they’ve been in contact with Zygi Wilf about the Minnesota Vikings owner’s interest in bringing a club to Minneapolis.

On Tuesday, Wilf announced an agreement on a stadium project in the Minneapolis suburb of Arden Hills, Minn. At the same time Wilf announced a desire to host an MLS team in the billion-dollar, retractable-roof stadium.

Zygi Wilf wants to bring an MLS team to Minnesota to play in the stadium that will be built for the Vikings. (AP photo)

Wilf has already expressed his intentions to MLS.

“We have kept in contact with the Vikings throughout their stadium process and look forward to learning more about the project,” MLS president Mark Abbott told MLSsoccer.com.

There currently are 18 teams in MLS, and a 19th -- the Montreal Impact -- is set to join the league in 2012. It has been expected that a 20th franchise would be located in New York City, and a group there is making moves toward that end, recently purchasing the naming and merchandising rights of the defunct New York Cosmos.

The last time MLS added a team, the expansion fee was $40 million.

There is no timetable for when Wilf would like to have a team, but the stadium is projected to open in 2015. There is also no guarantee that the talks will necessarily go anywhere, as the league takes calls from cities all over the nation about acquiring a club.

Right now, only two MLS clubs share a home with an NFL franchise, and the small sample size offers little insight into how a team would fare in Minnesota. The Seattle Sounders play in Qwest Field along with the Seahawks and are No. 1 in attendance, but the New England Revolution bring the league’s worst attendance to Gillette Stadium.